Baltimore – UMBC sophomore
midfielder Dave Brown (Coopersburg, Pa.) scored three
goals and added an assist as the host Retrievers edged Binghamton,
8-6, in an America East Conference contest.
The Retrievers won back-to-back games for the first time this
season and improved to 4-5 overall and 1-1 in league play. The
Bearcats fell to 5-6, 1-1.
Brown was UMBC's America East Player of the Game, while
Bearcat freshman attackman Brandon Planck, who scored a pair of
goals, earned the honor for his team.
UMBC used a 6-0 run in the second quarter to take control of the
contest. Trailing 2-1 after Binghamton David Raleigh midfielder
scored 1:28 into the second quarter, Brown tied the game on an
unassisted tally 2:46 into the stanza. Sophomore
midfielder Neill Lewnes (Arnold, Md./St. Mary's)
gave the Retrievers the lead for good, converting a Rob
Grimm (Black River, N.Y.) feed on the right wing just 39
seconds after Brown had tied the game.
Brown completed his hat trick with back-to-back scores 57
seconds apart at the 9:38 and 8:41 marks of the stanza. Then,
sophomore attackman Scott Jones (Port Coquitlam, B.C.)
got into the act, converting a Brown pass at the 6:22 mark and
completing the surge with an unassisted tally with 5:34 to play in
the first half.
UMBC had scored only 13 second quarter goals through the first
eight games, before exploding for the six-spot in the contest.
Binghamton scored the final two goals of the half and trailed,
7-4, at the break.
The Bearcats slowed UMBC down with a zone defense in the second
half and scored the lone goal of the third quarter when Planck
tallied midway through the period.
UMBC broke a scoring drought of 25:33 when freshman
midfielder Zach Linkous (Jarrettsville, Md./St.
Paul's) fired in a shot from the left wing after receiving a
pass from behind the net by senior midfielder Jamie
Kimbles (Centreville, Md./Queen Anne's) at the 11:01
mark of the final stanza.
Raleigh scored his second goal of the game with 4:08 remaining,
but UMBC netminder Brian McCullough (Garden City, N.Y.)
saved a Tyler Perrelle shot with 1:13 to play and the Retrievers
posted their 11th consecutive win over the
Bearcats.
Jones and Linkous each scored two goals for UMBC, while Raleigh
added a pair for the visitors.
Binghamton outshot UMBC, 33-26, as McCullough and Bearcat
freshman goalkeeper Kraig Heston each were credited with six
saves.
The six goals allowed by UMBC are the fewest permitted this
season and the least since a 6-5 victory over Rutgers in the second
game of the 2010 campaign.
The Retrievers travel to Albany to face the Great Danes in a
league showdown on April 16.
